“We saw that reading devices, as well as tablet devices, have been very, very popular Christmas gifts in Europe,” explains author Ruediger Wischenbart, a Vienna-based journalist and consultant specializing in book publishing and the cultural industries. “So, we have quite a significant environment now, which tells us that 2012 is going to see very strong development.”

The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections was originally published in October 2011, and is available as a free download from O’Reilly Media. An update will be published next month at the Tools of Change 2012 conference in New York City.

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